In the January 26 issue of National Review, in the aftermath of the Iran earthquake, William F. Buckley, Jr. reprinted "A Christian Struggles to Understand the Earthquake," an excerpt from his book Nearer My God recalling his reactions to the quake that struck Turkey in 1992. Not surprisingly, the piece muses about the problem of natural disaster coexisting with an Almighty God, pondering the mysterious, almost paradoxical existence of the God we worship. Voltaire, although far from devoutly (or even at all) Christian, perhaps summed it up best: "In the opinion that there is a God, there are difficulties; but...